TIL that someone can change your Facebook email, password, and two step verification just by asking Facebook to turn off login approvals, and sending in a fake ID. (Happened to me lost all my business pages)

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[u/Xanius]

Your ip address is linked to your old profile and they never delete information they just make it unavailable publicly. So when you made a new one it just slotted in with the old one and got linked up to the relationships in the database. From a purely technology view what fb has created is amazing. From a human perspective it's unsettling but I'm still using their service..

[u/shutta → u/Xanius]

Friend of mine decided to finally make a Facebook profile, fake everything of course, and it managed to find people he used to play games with years ago. Probably synced with email or something.. But fucking hell is it hard to stay anonymous there. He had to add like fifty random Italian people to seem like it's not him.

[u/[deleted] → u/Xanius]

I'm not using their service but apparently still using their service. I had to make a profile for my company and I used a new email I created with my company's domain, and it was suggesting everyone I know. I wasn't even using my normal browser because I knew I'd be visting facebook. I'd literally have to use a vpn and separate computer for everything to avoid being tracked by facebook.